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What’s worse burglary or murder?This is a question that is so easy to answer, yet if you listen to the supporters of 61 year old Joe Horn, you would think that burglary was the epitome of crimes. I am talking about the case of Joe Horn who shot two of three suspected burglars to death as they walked from his neighbor’s yard in Texas.He was talking with the 911 operator when he did it.

I am sure that people are reading this and saying “but Black Sentinel isn’t a crime a crime?”Of course and I don’t have any problems with that.The problems I do have is when someone decides that this is now the wild, wild west and breaks out a gun and starts shooting those he “suspects” are guilty of a crime.I am pretty darn sure that those three men “were” robbing Horn’s neighbor, yet whose responsibility is it to make sure that those involved in crime pay for them?I know that Horn believes that it was he that had the right.

This is a clear cut case of murder.I believe that it can be looked at as premeditated murder if you read or listen to his conversation with the 911 operator.(read the transcript here)The operator tells him, “Don’t go outside the house, you’re going to get yourself shot if you go outside with a gun.I don’t care what you think.”Horn then replies, “You wanna make a bet; I’m going to kill them.”Not to mention that when he was shooting you can hear on the phone call him stating “you’re dead” then the loud cracks of a gun firing.What about stating you are going to kill someone right before you do it isn’t considered premeditated murder?

People are saying things such as “if we start doling justice like Horn, crime would go down.”Did crime in the old west go down when you could shoot people justly in the streets?Nope, in fact crime was out of control, which is the reason we had to enact new laws in order to stop people from taking it upon themselves to dole out the justice.What would have stopped another neighbor from seeing Horn with his gun, not knowing exactly what “he” was doing, go get their gun and shoot him, thinking “he” was in the middle of committing a crime as well.This kind of action opens up a can of worms that once out is going to get out of hand very quickly.

He told the dispatcher that he saw them coming out the window and had to go, where he went over to the neighbor’s yard to confront the men.He claims that he didn’t expect to see them, yet he could see them and ran over there with his gun, is he kidding.He says that they came towards the front yard and he “had” to shoot.If he had stayed in the house like he was told he wouldn’t have “HAD” to shoot anyone.The point is he WANTED to shoot those men.He even stated a new law called the Castle Doctrine Bill as a means that would protect him “if he kills them.”Senator Jeff Wentworth says that the bill was not written to protect a person in this situation.

The senator says the bill is intended to defend someone that is defending themselves or their family etc. from someone breaking into their occupied home, car or business, not a neighbor’s home which was unoccupied at the time.Like the senator said, in HIS OWN HOME, not some house next door, down the street or how about across town.So this man hadn’t even read the law he was citing before he went off to do his little shooting spree.Now is this the type of person we want taking it upon themselves to give justice at will?I don’t feel safe with this moron out supposedly protecting me or anyone else.

I am seeing on the news paper Blogs a lot of people are saying that this man is a hero because these two guys were scumbags and deserved to be shot dead, as they would be out robbing someone else right now.They are also talking about how this guy Horn shouldn’t have to cower in his home while burglars are running amok.Now the problem I am having is yes these guys probably were scumbags, but when did being a scumbag deserve death?Also, Horn was not being robbed personally so he didn’t need to cower in his home, remember, he went out and confronted the alleged scumbags.Also, if they were in “HIS” home I probably wouldn’t have a problem with what happened.

This has turned into a race problem since the protestors seem to be minorities and the people who are supporting him are white.The supporters are also running around with the confederate flag, I even seen a confederate flag painted on the back of one person’s head.I think that the reason the minorities are painting this as a racist problem could be that the man probably would not have run out of his house to shoot these fellows if they were white.He likely would have asked them what they were doing.This is the discrepancy, he might have jumped the gun and these guys could have been a construction team doing work, he didn’t know and that is the problem with people deciding that they have the right to play police man.